M4.4 earthquake Fiji region
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck in the Fiji region on Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 3:14 AM GMT-12 (15:14 UTC), 601 km (373 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.5 Fiji region. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.4 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-08-20 15:14:16 UTC
- Depth
- 600.6 km (373.2 mi), deep
- Epicenter
- 21.361° S, 179.414° W
- Region
- Fiji
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 12.5 km horizontally, 9.2 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.06
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 101°
- Stations used
- 80
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 10 in the 60 days after this one and 3 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.5Fiji region · 396 days ago · 548 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.3Fiji region · 396 days ago · 554 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 393 days ago · 613 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 387 days ago · 585 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 375 days ago · 474 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.4Fiji region · 365 days ago · 591 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.1Fiji region · 363 days ago · 655 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.2Fiji region · 361 days ago · 581 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.3south of the Fiji Islands · 360 days ago · 607 km deep · 83 km away
- 3.9Fiji region · 354 days ago · 482 km deep · 79 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000r2c2. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 8:19 AM UTC.